hello,

thanks for the comands - would i be right in thinking that i login via ssh and type:

% man proftpd

% man ftpshut

to shut the ftp server down and:

% man proftpd

% man ftpstart

to fire it up again??? no i got it running the last thing i want to do is turn it off perminatly!

cheers,

jake

man is the command to access the manual. i think whoever pointed you towards that command was trying to say that they didnt know the answer, but that if you used 'man commandname' you could find out the answer to your question.

hope that helps - though you might have found out by now!

I got the same error and had to reinstall the Developer Tools. There may have been an easier way to do it, but my guess is successive upgrades from the original 10.2 to 10.2.3 and finally 10.2.4 messsed with something - resulting in the compiler not being found.. Anyway, it works if you just reinstall the Dev Tools... Good luck

think thats it! i thought the dev tools were on this machine, seems to have been deleted (too much house keeping on my part)

i'll give it another go,

cheers,

jake

Error when starting (or quitting)
 

I'm getting an error when starting or quitting the server:

xinetd[4719]: Error reading included directory: /etc/xinetd.d [line=11]

I've checked and rechecked the file but am lost.

Any ideas?

Jim

chroot in Jaguar
 

There are detailed instructions for recompiling ftpd w/ chroot support at :

http://www.chezludo.com/ftpchroot.html

sweet! thanx.

pure-ftpd
 

There's always pure-ftpd, which natively supports chroot:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...threadid=10276

FINK
 

It seems that both proftp, as well as pure-ftp are available as FINK installs. That should save people a lot of trouble. To see what packages are available do this:

% fink list ftp

Here are the results:

aftp 1.0-1 Manipulate and browse Apple II disk images
axyftp 0.5.1-5 FTP client for X with nice and intuitive ...
ftp-tls 20020906-3 SSL/TLS enabled replacement for standard ...
ftpfiles 20030406-1 Some required system files
gftp 2.0.14-3 Multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
gproftpd 8.0.3-1 GNOME Frontend for Proftpd standalone
lftp 2.6.5-1 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
lftp-ssl 2.6.5-1 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
ncftp 3.1.5-1 Browser program using ftp protocol
proftpd 1.2.8.0-2 Advanced, incredibly configurable and sec...
pure-ftpd 1.0.14-1 Efficient, lightweight, and secure ftp se...
tftp-hpa 0.26-2 Enhanced port of the BSD TFTP server
webmin-proftpd 1.090-1 Webmin module: ProFTPD Server
webmin-x-wuftpd 1.090-1 EXTRA Webmin module: WU-FTP Server

After looking through them, pure-ftpd seems like the easiest. The other thread linked above has good instructions for using it, that together with the FINK package description provide all the info you will need. (I think - I have to go try it.)

fink and unstable versions
 

After lot's of hours spent as total newbie in fink :rolleyes: , there are some points i want to mention. Use fink configuration which seeks also for unstable vers., because otherway there wont be proftp package when listing. To do this type

%fink configuration

and when asked whether use unstable versions type "y" and return. Other files I left default.
You may also find usable that mac developer tools are now called XCode.

oh... I read my own post today and I'm sorry for that terrible blunders... lot's = lots, wont = won't

and also I want to know if there is anyone here who was able to use external file for user-config. AuthUserFile didn't work for me for some reason.